Pressure Vessels & Tanks Engineer

Job description / Role

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Job Description

Saudi Aramco (SA) is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join Pressure Vessels & Tanks Group (PV&TG) in Static Equipment Division (SED) of Consulting Services Department (CSD) based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. PV&TG provides technical support and consultations to Saudi Aramco operating facilities as well as JV Companies in the area of pressure vessels and storage tanks. It also provides technical support to new projects, maintains quality standards, encourages technologies deployment, performs technical assessment to vessels and tanks manufacturers, enhance non-metallic deployment and engages in delivering technical courses to young engineers.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and consultations to Saudi Aramco operating facilities as well as JV Companies in the area of pressure vessels and storage tanks.
- Provide technical support to new projects development through engagement in the e-review at various project stages to ensure full compliance with SA relevant standards and provides support during construction stage.
- Maintain quality standards through continuous revisions and benchmarking with industry standards and participation in value engineering (VE) studies.
- Explore, evaluate and adopt technologies that will address specialty challenges or enhance operation.
- Perform technical evaluation of vessels and tanks manufacturers to verify their engineering and manufacturing capabilities.
- Enlarge envelope of non-metallic deployment in the area of vessels and tanks.
- Enhance knowledge sharing through teaching technical courses related to the specialty.
- Present technical papers in major international conferences and issue papers in reputable oil and gas journals.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or other related degree from an accredited university.
- A Professional Engineer (P.E.) will be desirable but is not essential.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of experience in in the pressure vessels and tanks industry (design, troubleshooting, maintenance and repairs, commissioning, testing, etc.)
- Experienced in the design codes of pressure vessels (i.e. ASME SEC VIII D1&2) and tanks (i.e. API STD 650 and API STD 620).
- Experienced in the industry codes used to evaluate pressure vessels (i.e. API-510 and API-579) and tanks (i.e. API-653 and API-579).
- Familiar with stress analysis techniques and own the capability to review (as minimum) results of analysis.
- Demonstrate excellent technical writing and presentation skills.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.